Actually, if you look at California and their power situation, it is a mess. A lot of their power comes from Arizona and Mexico. Travel I-10 west from Phoenix and you see a lot of power plants and power lines all going west to LaLa Land. Same with the Hoover Dam, whatever Vegas doesn't use goes to LaLa Land. If you look at a electrical map of the western power grid, you see 2- 500KVDC lines going into LaLa Land, one from The Dalles, Oregon providing hydro power and another going from Intermountain Power Plant in Delta, Utah. A big coal plant that only supplies the land of fruits and nuts. There is also a big power plant in Mexicali with a natural gas pipeline that runs through southern Arizona and California into Mexico with a pumping station in Ehrenberg, AZ.

Just get Trump and the government out of the way and there would just need to be some court cases to take care of idiots with nuclear isotopes with no understanding of what they have. Dirty bomb stuff has nothing to do with nuclear power generation and should be considered a side issue as to how to deal with the dangerously insane.

Just Thorium I think, which is awesome. Other breeders are problematic.

CA can then pay through the nose for all the carbon tax it requires it imports energy and water! Lex Luther in Superman One had it right

It is not easy to shoot to the sun. Takes a lot more thrust unless you can use gravity assist.
Besides, why have all the waste when breeder reactors can use much of the waste from current reactors.

You get more radiation on flight from Japan to Seattle.

BWRs and breeders are not the only options, and you don't have to build a nuclear plant where tidal waves can wipe them out. They are already designed for seismic events. There are 80-90 PWRs driving around in the ocean since 1950, without a single accident. One even ran into an underwater mountain at ~30 MPH, and came home.

I am 100% sure Greenpeace (more appropriately GreenWar) has asserted the levels in Seattle are higher, and DDT kills birds. Has someone credible measured levels relevant to a real issue?

After Three Mile Island people were up in arms, but the levels of radiation from this preventable accident were laughably low.

Please forward a recent scientific journal article if you have one.

One new one and the announcement that California will be closing its last nuclear plant in the next 10 years.
Time to develop the breeder reactors, especially thorium fueled which the fuel is already in a molten state and have natural shutdown methods.

Thorium reactors are a great option, but we don't need to wait until then. There is little evidence of an issue with nuclear accidents, and lots of evidence they are completely controllable. Unless you have some other evidence.

Are you arguing they represent Friedman's forced servitude?

I learned about them here, from JLC!

Don't think Trump is the only or best driver to make that happen, but your precondition is quite correct.

scientific journals..media...the radiation leak is a lot more significant than your watch or smoke dedector...the rad levels in Tokyo were above safe levels...the govt considered evacuation, but backed off...no where to take 35 million people...i would not plan a vacation to Japan anytime soon...rad levels were up in Seattle as a result...

It is the solution. Unless there is a malfunction. And then you spread nuclear waste throughout the biosphere. The best solution is to wait a bit until the Thorium Reactors are built. They burn nuclear waste as fuel and render it into something much safer.

Exactly...

Trump could probably get one going in a couple of years,
if the government would get the ... out of the way! -- j
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Yes, Fukashima is leaking radiation. So is my watch and everyone's smoke detectors. The island of Japan and the Pacific Ocean are not in serious jeopardy because of Fukashima! Where did you hear this?

I agree re-operating and maintenance regulations, but not the construction nonsense regulations and politics.

Fukashima is still leaking radiation into the Pacific...the island of Japan will be dead inside 40 years as will be the Pacific Ocean...at one point they considered evacuating Tokyo, but they had nowhere to put 35 million people...they all got irradiated (poisoned)...

Shocking. Maybe overcome by sunk cost.

Pathetically long time. That is the bureaucratic problem.

Good point, but FYI, SUBSAFE is not about reactor safety, it is about ship safety and seawater leaks. Rickover definitely is responsible for the processes that make this work.

I have always wondered why that isn't a solution.

For which Admiral Rickover and his SUBSAFE program -- begun after the loss of USS Thresher in 1963 -- deserve the credit. Which shows that even a government bureaucracy can occasionally get something right.

I'm happiest if part of the output of such a facility can be used to prepare enough H2/O2 rocket fuel to blast the spent nuclear waste into the heart of the sun.

Carbon warming is their organized teachings, (religion).

Most regulations are ridiculous; however, many in this case are necessary...we don't want another Japan like incident. Just hope they have competent conscious humans operating the place and not balma voting union members.

You mean to say that rationality overcame superstition and we got a nuclear plant? Huzzah!

in july of 1975, they tried to hire me to work on this
plant. . I chose the manhattan project site k25 instead
and retired from the sister site y12 in 2008. . the old
memories are kinda curious, now. . took a long time
to get this plant going. -- j
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